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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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The story is kept quiet because everyone everywhere is benefitting from slave labor in china. They’re enslaved in there, and there’s nothing you can do short of stop buying what they make.
First of all there is no slave labor in China. Second of all it hasn’t been kept quiet, or else people wouldn’t be posting about it. And third of all the US is not benefiting from any labor in Xinjiang because it has banned imports from the region in order to cause unemployment in the hopes of rekindling its failed terrorism campaign.
Aside from the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, i can't think of a single alleged or proven "human rights abuse" story since 2020 that got more western press coverage than Xinjiang and the Uighurs. To say it's being "kept quiet" is a fucking hilarious accusation.
This is frankly just orientalism. There is no basis to this claim but it gains traction because it is easy for casual chauvinists to believe that the asiatic hordes depend on slave labor.
Right-wing misinformation coming from a .worlder? How unsurprising
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You think Chinese products are cheap because all of it is made by Uyghur slaves? Even if there is forced labour clearly not all products can be made that way. Forced labour is very common in the US but the US still has factory workers.
everyone else here has given detailed and comprehensive answers with multiple sources, and here you are just posting unsubstantiated vibes that only sound true to people who saw that spongebob in china video when they were in middle school and based all their opinions about the country on that
hmm? Can you please elaborate? Like some kind of resource ? the other comments provided so many links that I do plan to read eventually, I'd appreciate if you do the same